Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:36:14 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf? Message-ID: <26948.911111774@zippy.cdrom.com>
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A lot of folks dive in and change this first thing since it's annoying to have a non-connected host bring up a ppp connection just to resolve your own hostname, and sysinstall is careful about putting entries into /etc/hosts for this. Any objection to changing the default? For most folks, it won't even make a difference since all the entries in /etc/hosts are commented out by default. To shoot yourself in the foot here still requires deliberate action, and at least /etc/hosts is a better known location than /etc/host.conf - I still have to explain that one to folks in this day and age. Comments? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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